Re: 2.6.24-rc4-git5: Reported regressions from 2.6.23

Alan Stern
2007-12-08T15:49:35Z

On Sat, 8 Dec 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:

> On Sat, 8 Dec 2007 03:40:49 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
>
> > This message contains a list of some regressions from 2.6.23 which have been
> > reported since 2.6.24-rc1 was released and for which there are no fixes in the
> > mainline that I know of.  If any of them have been fixed already, please let me
> > know.
> >
> > If you know of any other unresolved regressions from 2.6.23, please let me know
> > either and I'll add them to the list.
> >
> >
> > ..
> >
> > Subject : system hangs after a few minutes
> > Submitter : Marcus Better <marcus@better.se>
> > References : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9335
> > Handled-By : Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> > Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
> > Patch : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/attachment.cgi?id=13871&action=view
> >
>
> This one we have a confirmed fix from Alan but it doesn't appear to be in
> anyone's tree.

An expanded version of that fix is in Greg's queue:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb-devel&m=119697043410947&w=2

Since he's away until Tuesday, nothing will happen for a few days.
However you might want to replace the old fix that got added to -mm.

> There is a second bug in here, applicable to core x86: Marcus's machine
> won't boot with nmi_watchdog=1.

Alan Stern